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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Adam Sedia · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:18 a.m.

"East-Coaster" is a far too generic term. It really means this: an irresponsible, self-absorbed, boorish, spoiled rich brat from within a 100-mile radius of New York City who looks at"the locals" the same way an 18th-century British lord would look on the American colonists. Every time you see a BMW with Connecticut plates parked with an E-pass, an address in one of the swanky new downtown apartment complexes or full expenses (including bail) paid from daddy's credit card, you've found a genuine East Coaster. It's hard not to show contempt for this type of person, and though I described the East Coasters in the worst of terms, there are degrees of acuteness in their various traits.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Amy Obermeyer · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:18 a.m.

I was never aware of any antipathy toward East Coasters until I came here. And even then, for awhile I thought it was a joke.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Bryan Schmidt · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:17 a.m.

The fact that we are having this "debate" might appear silly or even amusing at first, but it's more pathetic than anything else. What both sides fail to realize is that they are guilty of the same irrational, absurd prejudice toward another group. With all the hate in the world stemming from differences in class, gender, sexual orientation and race, do Americans really need to include geographical origin as yet another means to typecast and divide ourselves? There is no East Coast vs. Midwest problem on campus. IU is home to all kinds of people from every state. The problem here is that such a student body will sadly always contain both those from Indiana and elsewhere who are too immature to get along.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Tony Sams · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:16 a.m.

I don't believe this campus has an East Coast/Midwest divide. In reality, students congregate around those with whom they feel comfortable, which needn't be based on geography. Friends are forged from similar backgrounds, personality traits, drug habits, etc. That said, I do believe there's a nice/jerk divide that has nothing to do with where you lived before. I've been here for four years. I wish I had more friends from all over, but face it: A lot of you are jerks. From east to west, north to south, left to right, here and abroad, forget cultural stereotypes: We're just massive jerks to people we don't know. It doesn't need to be this way. We don't need to drudge up cultural stereotypes, we need etiquette classes.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Joanna Borns · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:16 a.m.

I was in Hawaii during spring break and I told someone I was from Indiana. She said, "Oh, you're from the East Coast." Maybe she was too busy eating poi and hula dancing to study geography. But if you're in the Pacific, the entire mainland United States seems like the East Coast.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Peter Chen · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:14 a.m.

Regionalism happens. As long as there are people, there will be regional factions. We always need to have an adversary. Every green lawn needs the other side of the fence. Every Cub needs a Cardinal. Every IU needs a Purdue. Unfortunately, when these differences become the grounds for any conflict more than a playful jest, we have a serious problem.

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Pakistan bombing kills 41 during prayer service

By Alyson Brodsy and Zarar Khan · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:12 a.m.

KARACHI, Pakistan -- A suicide attacker detonated a bomb during an outdoor Islamic prayer service Tuesday, killing at least 41 people and wounding dozens, police said. An angry mob burned cars and threw stones at police, who fired into the air to disperse the crowds, a witness said.

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Iran announces nuclear milestone

By Alyson Brodsy and Ali Akbar Dareini · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:10 a.m.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has successfully enriched uranium for the first time, a landmark in its quest to develop nuclear fuel, hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, although he insisted his country does not aim to develop atomic weapons. In a nationally televised speech, Ahmadinejad called on the West "not to cause an everlasting hatred in the hearts of Iranians" by trying to force Iran to abandon uranium enrichment.

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ACCIDENT

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:07 a.m.

ACCIDENT -- Kaneka Kidd holds her son Jaylyn Adam Ellis' helmet while sitting outside her home in Gary Tuesday. Jaylyn, 6, was taking turns riding a four-wheel ATV and wearing the helmet when he was killed by a speeding car that veered out of control after an accident on the city's west side Monday.

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Wife of Iraq hostage asks for call

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:05 a.m.

LAPORTE, Ind. -- The wife of Indiana businessman Jeffrey Ake broke the public silence she had kept since he was kidnapped a year ago in Iraq, saying Tuesday she believed he was still alive even though there has been no word about him since days after his abduction.

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State struggles in survey

By Kristi Oloffson · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:02 a.m.

A recent survey ranked each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia by its efforts to prevent unintended pregnancies. Indiana placed 49th, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

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Speaking out for equality in silence

By Alyson Brodsy and Grace Low · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:59 a.m.

Members of the GLBT community and their straight allies march for the annual National Day of Silence Tuesday. Organizers said the day is intended to bring about awareness of the everyday social oppression experienced by a significant portion of the student body. Participants observed the day by taking vows of silence, participating in scheduled "Kiss-Offs" outside of Woodburn Hall and walking in the hour-long, silent march around campus.

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Speaking out for equality in silence

By Alyson Brodsy and Grace Low · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:56 a.m.

Senior Nick Connor practices silent activism near Ballentine Hall while gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight couples embrace behind him in observance of the National Day of Silence Tuesday.

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The worst-case scenario

By Alyson Brodsy and Rick Newkirk · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:53 a.m.

When you work with the news, your media can sometimes be fickle. On slow news days, we run an entire front page of filler. On other days, like Tuesday's paper, we have to make room for several huge stories at once.

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IMU design students win awards

By Peter Stevenson · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:52 a.m.

Walking through the Indiana Memorial Union, students are bombarded with images. signs, posters and flyers cover the walls in some places. Many of these graphics are designed by the IMU's team of graphic designers, several of whom won awards in last month's Association of College Unions International "Steal This Idea" graphic design competition. 2005 IU graduate Matt Marosz won first place in the two-color brochures (eight panels or less) category for a catalog he designed. Marosz was also an honorable mention in the cards, postcards, and invitations category for his Union Board biennial invitation. Senior Chris Sommerfeld won third place in the Signs category for the signs he designed for Sugar and Spice, which encourage customers to use credit cards as payment.

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Educator joins elite group

By Dana Tesser · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:51 a.m.

George Kuh, director of IU's Center for Postsecondary Research, recently joined an elite group: He is one of only five individuals to ever receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College Personnel Association.

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